Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 21:54:44 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com> To: Benedikt Stockebrand <benedikt@devnull.ruhr.de> Cc: Andrew Bromage <bromage@queens.unimelb.edu.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE CD-R on stable (was Re: CD writers as a backup medium) Message-ID: <35C51864.1233FFDC@kew.com> References: <199807311940.MAA11663@hub.freebsd.org> <199808010247.WAA05287@pobox.ids.net> <19980801180401.24027@queens.unimelb.edu.au> <874svxm0rl.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de>
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Benedikt Stockebrand wrote:
>
> Andrew Bromage <bromage@queens.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
>
> > Just wondered if anyone had thoughts on using a CD writer with
> > FreeBSD-stable as a backup medium.
>
> Writing a CD-ROM on a machine that is doing other things as well is
> bound to cause trouble. Your backups will be plain unreliable.
Ummm, semi-related question, are ONLY the SCSI CD-ROM burners supported? I
happen to have ended up with my HP IDE CD-R burner on my FreeBSD box (with
room for Windows if I have to boot back to it to burn CD-R's.)
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